'A clinical description of reality. I insist on the word 'clinical' is how Jean-Luc Godard described this simple story of despair and motherly love. Presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 1959, where it won the Grand Prix Eurovision, Marcel Hanoun's debut feature film fascinated Godard and several Nouvelle Vague filmmakers due to its strong poetic dimension, resulting from the disassociation between image and sound.

Cinema has a rich tradition of collaborative, participative and critical approaches, developed in partnership with those who are filmed. Many films are committed to welcoming and circulating images of the "other”, offering hospi...

Cinema has a rich tradition of collaborative, participative and critical approaches, developed in partnership with those who are filmed. Many films are committed to welcoming and circulating images of the "other”, offering hospitality to those who no longer find their place on earth. How has cinema questioned these issues, in an epoch that is so decisively marked by phenomena of mass migration, exodus of refugees, a rising number of homeless persons of all kinds, and the resurgence of national borders? This film series proposes a tragic synthesis of the convivial forms developed in contemporary documentaries, reflecting on how one of the crucial problems of our epoch has been addressed therein.

Access

1 screening: 3€

Young/Student, Over 65 and Amigos de Serralves: 1,5€

6 screenings: 12€

Access by Rua de Serralves nº 873, until 30 minutes before the screening